Improvement in boots and shoes



` c. MEYER, or NEw BRUNSWICK, NEwJEEsEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

v Specificationforming part of Letters APatent No. 34,689, dated March18, 1862. l

To all whomv it mag/concern."

-, Be it known that I, C. MEYER, of New Brunswick, in the' county ofMiddlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accom` -panying drawings, and to thelettersof reference marked thereon.'

My invention is more particularly intended for the Ibenefit 'of personswhose occupations are upon the water, as 'fishermen or boatf `men, andwho, from the incidents oftheir daily work, have occasion to use thefoot inl belaymg ropes-as, for instance, when a rope 1s run out from awindlass, say, for the purpose of casting a seine or when drawing it in,it is convenient and desirable to place the foot upon the rope in theposition indicated in the drawings, and thus retard or guideitsmovement. Such act, however, as bootsv andr shoes are usuallyconstructed, brings-the friction of the ropeupon the weakest part of theupperthat is to say, it a shoe ne used for this purpose the ropeclasping its sides, as shown in the drawings, Fig. 2, will impinge orrub against the vamp-fox- ;.ing and the quarter-foxing at a point whereI .they meet and are sewed together, and if4 a boot be worn then theropewill impinge against lthe point,where the. front and rear uppers meet,and in either. case the seam at the sides of the boot or. shoe will verysoon become worn ont.; 'but even if'the seam atv such point should notbecome worn the boot or shoe would-soon fail under the action of a rope,as stated, owing to 1- the fact that the vweakestportion of the leatherwhich is used for making boots and shoes is ordinarily ldisposed by themanufacturers ot those articlesl at the very place where, for thepurpose Idesign their use, the stoutest part of the lboot or shoe isreqnired.

. In the ld'ra'win gs, Figure 1" shows a boot with my improvementapplied. Fig. Qisa vertical section of Fig. 1 in the line a a; and Fig.3, a

plan 'of my boot or shoe sole, seen applied in 'Fig'. 1.

A fter a boot kor shoe is sofa-fr completed in the well-known' manner asto'require the atl-4 dition of a sole and a heel, I cut out a sole inthe outline, as shown at A, Fig. 3, the

widest portion thereofbeing in the line :1: rv, and forming ears b oneach side of that portion of anv ordinary sole which is the least inwidth. Such sole is then attached to a boot or shoe, as seen Jin Fig. 1,previous to which the heel B maybe secured to it, or the heel may beapplied after the sole is secured permanently in place.

vIn the present case I have shown my improvement .applied to anindia-rubber boot having a rubber front O and back D, with a rubber soleA applied thereto, as described;

but I contemplate the f application of-suchV formed soles to boots andshoes when made of ordinary material, as leather. As,for instance, whenthe sole is made of rubberand applied to a rubber boot yor shoe it canbe secured thereto bythe ordinary process of uniting such material, andif made of leather and applied to a leather boot or shoey the ears b maybe secured to the. uppers by stitching,

the bottom or m'ain portion A of the sole being secured to the uppersveither by stitching or pegging in the usual manner. The'ears b, (shownin color in Fig. 3,) rising upon either- -side of lthe shank of thesole, and being secured to the sides of a boot or shoe, effectuallyprotect its body from the eeet of the.A

peculiar wear to which it is nowsubjected in the use named, and this atthe cost of a mere 'trifle over the cost of an ordinary boot or shoe andso constructed a'boot'or shoe will wear quite' as long when applied tothe purpose to which it is peculiarly adaptedas will an ordinary bootorshoe under its ordinary use.

- Hayin'grthus described my invention, what I claim as`new, and desireto securel by Letters Patent of the United States, is`

So extending the width ofthe shank of -a boot o r shoe sole that whenapplied to a .boot or .shoesaid sole shall forml a lateral'wearingprotection on each 'side of the boot or shoe,

in the'manner and for the purpose set forth.

:(1. MEYER.: j Witnesses: v

' JAS. C. EDMoNDs,

' Jos. FORD.

